FIFA Ranking
Saturday, May 1, 2010
We should’ve learned by now. It’s really our own fault. Yet it’s hard to click on the monthly FIFA standings and frantically look around like someone’s playing a joke. Which would explain why Sepp Blatter is sitting over there in a Richard Nixon mask. (How’d he get in here?)
Three teams in the top fifteen aren’t even going to the World Cup, including Croatia, one of the great disappointments, at ninth. Odd, surely. Brazil overtook Spain in first without having played a game – a greater degree of odd. However, just how they’re getting away with Portugal at third…well no one really knows.Thankfully, FIFA does offer us an explanation: This means that most of the changes in this edition of the ranking are due to the devaluation of past results. Some teams have actually gained points due to the fact that the devaluation of poor results has led to a greater weighting of successful matches.
An explanation, but not necessarily the one we wanted.
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